[Birth Mother] First Mother Forum

(Jane, second row on the far right) Babies come from mothers who don't want them was the shocking message of an adoption agency adv...

I spent the weekend before last in Denver with a charming group of about 30 mothers who came together for a few days to share their stories,...

Here it is. My version of 9/11. Today is my daughter's 32nd birthday. But I'm not sad or angry, just wistful. Frequent visitors to F...

I seem to be attracting fireballs lately--mainly because a) I'm writing about my daughter and telling people, so that brings up the whol...

Double Header Day: Folks, I've twice lost everything I have written and so I'm a little nuts...so as lightening strikes overhead I...

It's hard not to think about language when writing about adoption from our vantage point --because it feels as if we are assaulted const...

Ah well, sometimes you come face to face with the devil. As I did last night at a party on Shelter Island. I heard someone introduce someone...

Lorraine Hello Everybody-- I've been writing and commenting about adoption-related issues for--yikes--more than half my life, and s...